A French policeman shot his wife and two
children dead on Sunday and then killed himself
after the woman told him she wanted to leave the
family home, the regional prosecutor said.
The shootings took place at the railway station in
Noyon, northeast of Paris, prosecutor Virginie
Girard said.
The incident took place after the wife had earlier
called gendarmes to her house following a dispute
during which she had told her husband she
wished to leave him.
The officers observed that the husband, who had
left, but returned while they were present, was
“perfectly calm.”
He did not object to the wife taking their five
children to the house of a neighbour, who was
due to give them a lift to the station in two
groups.
However, as the mother and the three youngest
children waited on the station platform for the
neighbour to bring the two eldest children, her
husband reappeared and opened fire on his wife
and two of the children, wounding them mortally
before killing himself.
Investigators were checking whether the
policeman had used his service weapon and
ammunition in the killings, Girard said. (dpa/NAN) The Punch Newspapers